Lisa H. Newman

Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of Internship Program
Communication - Field Service Faculty
158 McMicken Hall
513-556-4458
lisa.newman@uc.edu

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Education

MA , Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 1983.

College Teaching Certification, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 1985.

Professional Summary

Field Service Professor Lisa Newman has focused her career on helping others' to improve their communication skills. Joining the University of Cincinnati in 1987, she teaches and researches in the areas of Public Relations, Interviewing, Organizational, Group, Gender and Nonverbal Communication. The second edition of her Careers in Communication text was published in 2007. Professor Newman is Director of the Department of Communication Undergraduate and Internship Programs and on the steering committees for the UC Just Community Initiative, the C-Ring Award and the Strategic Enrollment Management Success Committee. She is actively engaged in the First Year Experience, serving as a regular speaker for the Peer Leader program, Freshmen Seminar Instructor and Talk Soup Learning community advisor. She was honored to receive the first UCWC Student Choice Faculty Woman of the Year award in 2007. Other awards include the 2005 National Conference for Community and Justice (NCJJ) award for helping to improve Human Relations in the Greater Cincinnati Region. And in 2004, she received the Just Community Faculty Award and the McMicken Dean's Award for Distinguished Service. Ms. Newman puts theory to practice as an organizational communication consultant to area businesses on team-building, interviewing and presentation skills. She is the communication coach for the Miami University Summer Business Institute for non-majors and the founder of Tri-State Litigation Consulting helping attorneys to select juries, prepare witnesses for trial and write opening and closing arguments for area law firms.

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